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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

August 1962: Paradise Palms in Full Swing

Nine months after its official Grand Opening, construction
in Paradise Palms was in full swing.
Over 200 homes had been sold at a rate of five homes per week,
generating $6,000,000 in sales – the equivalent of $46.3 Million in 2013
dollars. Featured in these August 1962
Las Vegas Review Journal features were the development team – Irwin Molasky,
Merv Adelson and Harry Lahr, the principles of Paradise Homes, Dan Palmer and
Bill Krisel, the architects who gave Paradise Palms it’s signature look and C.
Tony Pereira, the interior designer behind both the Palmer &
Krisel-designed Paradise Homes models and the Americana models. Members of the construction team were also
highlighted, including all the support staff of Paradise Homes, as well as
former major league baseball player Donald O’Flaherty, the original recreation
director of Paradise Palms, and standing in the shadow of the signature folded-plate covered
walkway of the Stardust Country Club is Head Golf Pro Bob Wagner. Even the cleverly-named Paradise Homes Folks Wagon got a
mention.

The second page of this article features three couples who
helped with the day to day community operations. The image of Pat and Ed Raybon of Paradise
Homes is taken against a backdrop of pristine decorative concrete block, while
in the background of the photograph of Mary and Walt Seegers is a fuzzy rendering of
what appears to be the Clubhouse of the Stardust Country Club. These images offer a significant historical look at the team of people who helped shape the beginnings of Paradise Palms.

Paradise Palms is a Mid-Century Modern neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nv which is bounded by Golden Arrow to the north, Viking to the south, Maryland Parkway to the west, and Eastern to the east, surrounds what was once the Stardust Golf Course, today known as National Golf Course. The neighborhood was developed in the early 1960s by Irwin Molasky’s Paradise Development, which later built Las Vegas’ first indoor mall, the Boulevard Mall, on the western edge of Paradise Palms.